This is the wine that hooked me on wine nearly 20 years ago. It set the standard for $20 Chardonnay back then, and it says a lot for the consistency of this Sonoma County stalwart winery that its 2009 LANDMARK Overlook Chardonnay still upholds a standard now. A masterful blend of grapes from Sonoma to the Russian River on down to Santa... Read more →

Q: Why do you never give bad reviews? The Corkscrewer Report only reviews wines that are great. That means all reviews you see here are only going to be wines that we rate 90 points or higher, and we always consider the price of the bottle in our reviews. In order for a wine to be great, it also has to be worth the... Read more →

The Corkscrewer Report only rates wines that we consider great. For all intents and purposes, that means 90 points or higher using the 100-point based wine rating system introduced by the Godfather of modern wine criticism, Robert Parker Jr., in the 1970s and now popularly used across the wine industry. However, we differentiate ourselves in... Read more →